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© Enid Morning News 
20 February 1988
Submitted by: Glenn

Edith Vera (Woods) Axton

August 8, 1917 ~ 1988

A Memorial service for Edith V. Axton, 70, a former Enid resident who died Saturday at a nursing home in Wichita, Kansas, will be at 1 PM Saturday at First Christian Church in Aline. The Rev. David Lyon, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, Wichita, will officiate.

The former Edith Vera Woods was born August 8, 1917, in McWillie and attended school at Aline, graduating in 1934. She then attended Phillips University and graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in business.

In 1942, she married Ronald E. Allen in Enid. They lived in Aline, where she taught school.

On June 6, 1960, she married Alfred Russell Axton. They lived in Wichita, where she worked as a stenographer for Boeing Aircraft Company for 21 years. Her husband died in January 1984. She also was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

Survivors include a son, Andrew Jay Allen of Seattle, Washington; a sister, Mrs. E. M. (Almeda) Smith of Norman; two brothers, A. Jay Woods Jr. of Arlington, Texas, and Donald E. Woods of Oklahoma City.

Memorials may be made to CWF "Gifts in Love" project at the church. 

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